The rest of our journey through Rivendell, I mean LA, consisted of more site seeing and fellowship with friends. After a relaxing day on the beach on Tuesday, we met with some friends of Trina's Wednesday to get a local's view of the big city. On our way to meet with them, we stopped at the Hollywood sign and observed the great beyond (space, the final frontier) at the Griffith Observatory. Our friends took us to see the Grauman Chinese Theatre where we saw lots of celebrities' hand prints and signatures. Trina even put her feet on John Wayne's foot prints and marveled at seeing they were the same size!!!! Next we took the Metro to the Grand Public Market, explored the Disney Concert Hall, got a bird's eye view of L.A. from the top of City Hall and bought some Ice Cream from Jose. With our ice cream in hand, we had one last adventure delving into the greatest bookstore of all time! It was two stories high full of new and used books, art made of books, things flying out of books making the stories come literally to life, and even books categorized in color! The second story was full of used books $1 each. We spent hours roaming through the labyrinth of stories seeking lost treasures. Soaking in the hot tub later that night, we unwound and dreamed of our own stories waiting to be written...
Thursday brought an end to our chapter in California and opened the next chapter of our journey. After grabbing some In N' Out burgers we boarded our plane, or should I say time travel machine, and made our way to Auckland, New Zealand. Somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, we went into hyper-drive and whizzed past February first!
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